Inner peripheral areas are present in almost all European countries; they deserve political attention in order to support the essential action of local stakeholders that are dealing with the associated challenges. ESPON released a new policy brief on inner peripheries in Europe.

To address today’s policy development, territorial diversity and cohesion challenges, the ESPON programme provides a number of tools with valuable information and data for countries, regions, cities, and citizens.

Five more peer-learning workshops offered in 2018. Policy makers who seek analytical advice are invited to send us their requests

The ESPON EGTC is organising a series of peer-learning workshops for all types of public authorities responsible for territorial development. The workshops are designed to enable a rapid know-how transfer and can serve various policy needs based on the experience of stakeholders who were involved in ESPON targeted analyses.

ESPON 2020

ESPON - Policy themes

ESPON delivers territorial evidence for actual policy needs in various areas. The subjects of our user oriented research projects are defined by the European Union, the 32 member states of the ESPON programme or even directly by local authorities via so called analysis proposals. This is to guarantee a high usability for the European policy makers who can use ESPON evidence as input to e.g. local development plans.

All of them together have in common that they serve you, whether you are a local policy maker, a government representative, an academic or just someone interested in territorial politics on an European level. ESPON projects follow a place-based approach and encourage capacity building. In order to help you navigate through our various projects, they have been clustered in the following categories: